Complete 911 Timeline

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4/12/2010: Miscellaneous New Entries - Updates as of April 12, 2010

Several miscellaneous new entries have been added to the 9/11 Timeline over the past few weeks. In the period before 9/11, we have a 1989 Rand Corporation paper that said the possibility of suicide plane hijackings was a “nightmare,” military claims that the number of alert air bases was inadequate to protect against terrorism from around 1997, and preparation for a change to the FAA’s “pre-emptive surrender” policy in the summer of 2001.

On the day of 9/11, an apparent gate agent checked to see whether lead hijacker Mohamed Atta’s famous bags had been loaded onto Flight 11, and a couple of days later the FAA investigated suspicious bookings on the same flight.

There are also two more CIA reports on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s interrogations, in which the alleged 9/11 mastermind falselyclaimed Zacarias Moussaoui was being considered solely for a second wave of attacks.

Finally, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently said the 9/11 attacks were a “big fabrication.”

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